Just got an email alert - 26 week backorder time !
Great (unfair) free market forces in play ;!)
We definitely don’t see the member count of grps such as this swell at these rates…
We need some semblance of fairness here, no ;?)
26 week times is not true. That is what the computer systems spits out to show when the WHOLE PO is filled!
We are shipping daily as you can clearly see!!
Gerald
http://www.microcenter.com/product/430528/BeagleBone_Black
I ordered one on Friday and go it on Tuesday. Not sure if they are still in stock. $5 premium. = $49
I would once again request that as many facts as possible be published regularly. It can be weekly shipments by region, and known backlog, as inaccurate as the latter might be. In a difficult situation, without facts, anecdotes and stories will take over.
As an anecdote: Adafruit doesn’t take back orders–they just notify you when the product is in stock. They’ve shown zero availability continuously since Jan 29.
I will continue to show shipment numbers per day. Nothing more.
Gerald
Just to say
our order on RS (italy) placed one month ago got cancelled. And now they say it will be available on July.
Adafruit has some beagles in stock right now. I didn’t receive stock notification that I had requested just saw it by chance.
Thanks, just got me one! Good timing looking at email.
Eric
That takes you into Atmel/Element14 SAM5 territory. Atmel are putting effort into Linux4Sam (Linux 3.10 LTS, Linux Mainline, and Yocto 1.5.1, with a Qt developer kit) and the latest board from Element14 is going to be $75.00.
See: http://www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view/Linux4SAM/
and for the board itself
See: http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-65651?ICID=knode-SAMA5D3-topbanner#anchor2
LTS kernels and Yocto are very important to me for commercial application.
This seems to be the situation for Europe in general. I did not find even one shopt that was able to sell a single piece. RS are the more funny ones here, they do massive online advertising for the BBB but are not able to ship before end of july (perhaps).
So the BBB seems to be more a rumour than a real product here…
It is real. But, if you wait until you see it in stock, it may be a while before you will get one.
Gerald
So the answer is clear: move to other platform. Don’t wait for the stock go for a new board.
The producer is not thinking how to cover demand but how to increase price.
As a marketing strategy is the worse it can be – more and more potential users
will move to other platforms and in a couple of month we will see plenty of boards on stock
but no demand. it is an old story but it seems some lessons are never learned.
I’m not sure this is really going to happen. The same supply and demand problems existed for the Pi and it has caught up. In the last month I have gotten 3 BBB so be resourceful.
We cannot increase supply. We are maxed out. Why? Well, because we can’t find another CM that will make the board for no profit. SO, unless we increase the price we cannot increase supply. If you don’t understand this, well I can’t help that.
Gerald
best of luck. don't forget to write.
rday
Well this is news. Previously it just sounded like there were very
understandable issues ramping up part deliveries.
Regardless, if no money is being made building BeagleBones, I'd much
rather see a price increase than have the boards go away. IMHO there
isn't really any difference between a $49.99 price and the current $45,
but that ought to help a lot with margins. I've been on the wrong side
of "shipping money out the door and making it up in volume", and it's
not a fun place to be.
Please keep us posted!
We have doubled our production over the last two months to 3,000 per week. But that is about as good as it is going to get. We still have people sucking up 100s of boards for use in products and we have not found a way to stop that. We are building them and we are shipping them as fast as we can. They just aren’t getting to people that we want to have them.
Gerald
This is not a solution, most shops don't allow to order something when
they don't have the hardware in stock.
Actually most shops do. That is why we can never catch up.;
Gerald
I wanted to know if someone got recently a LCD7 CAP ? Because I’m still waiting since January … !!!